(P311) Improving Pump Referrals in Medicaid-Insured Youth with Type 1 Diabetes

Saturday, August 5, 2023

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT

Primary Presenter(s)

Rebecca O. Barber, PhD, RN, CPN (she/her/hers)

Research Nurse Scientist
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States

Co-Presenter(s)

JB

Jennifer L. Baldwin, RN, CDCES

Nurse Care Manager
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Long Beach, California, United States

There is a need for streamlined processes in diabetes clinics to aid Medicaid-insured youth with T1D and families in navigating insulin pump referrals. This poster outlines how a 9-step referral roadmap including diabetes care and education specialists (DCES), advanced practice providers, endocrinologists, and a researcher showed the potential to reduce the time between referral to pump treatment and pump initiation in a Southern California hospital.